CES 2012: "Thinner, faster, better"? - Top Stories

Monday 09 January: Oh to be in Las Vegas in January... Clean air, sunshine and toys and gadgets galore.

The year's first big industry event, the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), kicks off in Vegas on Tuesday 10 January.

Over the week of the show (10-13 January), we will be updating Wares.co.nz with links and short stories to direct you towards key news, events and announcements as well as some of the more insightful reporting from around the world.

From what we can see so far, although there's been quite a bit of media cynicism (when isn't there?), particularly focused on whether it's actually worth being at the show in person (as opposed to trawling the net for the latest info), this year's CES show looks like it'll do the usual, that is act as a major launch platform for the latest technology and products.

By usual, we don't mean same old, same old - far from it - in fact see a list of snippets below...

We'll keep you posted...

Wednesday 11 January: Here are some of the highlights that emerged after the massive flurry of activity of the first day had died down. The following links give you the good oil, direct from the horses' mouths so to speak:

Microsoft's Ballmer talks about Kinect spreading its wings... More
LG shows off massive OLED, ultra thin bezel, Ultra Definition TVs... More
Samsung's next gen TVs have voice activation! More
Vizio's done well with TV, looks to PCs for more of the same... More
Panasonic: massive Blu-Ray line-up, passive 3D LCD TV and more... More
Sony's Crystal LED tech, Sony smartphone, and Walkman returns... More
Logitech's weird Cube mouse and more... More
3M launches multi-touch touchscreens. More
Belkin rebrands to underline " people-inspired products". More
Duracell, P&G, Powermat could stymie the battery's future? More
Web radio goes into cars with Harman's Aha. More
Nokia clearly central to Windows Phone 7's success... More
Huawei launches slimmest smartphone... More
And Acer launches thinnest ultrabook... More
Parrot shows off AR.Drone2.0 with 720p camera. More
Canon's CES digital still and video launches here soon... More

Thursday 12 January: A few of the hot items at Las Vegas that we didn't get to namecheck yesterday...

HP's cool-as Spectre ultrabook. More
Lenovo: smartphones, more hip tech than you can shake a stick at. More
Cnet's Best of CES Finalists to browse. More
HTC outs Titan, the biggest Windows Phone so far. More
Powertrekk produces power from piss (or water). More
I'm Watch classy Android watch / phone interface. More
Cnet.com on Intel's strategy to stay in touch with smartphones, tablets. More

Monday 16 January: A post-weekend round-up of the best reporting on CES 2012.

Cnet's take on what truly stood out at CES 2012. More
Gizmodo's CES round-up also highlights Fujifilm's X-Pro1. More
Techradar: "Thinner, faster, better!". More
Engadget: No summary but lots of news! More
TechCrunch gets face to face with Parrot. More
The Guardian's summary in pictures. More
PC World sifts the hottest gadgets from the rest. More
Android Central picks the hottest phones & tablets. More
iMore gives a more Apple-centric overview. More
And SlashGear rounds off with a gadget / tech slant. More

For a more detailed analysis of see Wares magazine's February issue out soon!